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How to Make your own green screen studio and key it out

Jan 16, 2009 07:13 PM

Silhouettes of three figures in front of a crowd, with a vibrant red and green background.

Want to learn how you can make some awesome YouTube videos of your own? Maybe your own Internet show or maybe even a short indie film... well, one way to make things easy is a green screen. This two-part video tutorial will show you how to make your own green screen studio and key it out. With a green screen, a YouTube show with special effects is easy!

In the second video, see how to key out the green background in Adobe After Effects and Wax (a free green screen software). Keying out the green screen is a cinch by chroma key editing. As for lighting, there are many articles on this subject, but the best advice is to buy a couple of cheap halogen work lamps. You can bounce the light off a white surface aimed at your subject so the lighting isn't as harsh on your subject.

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